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On Wednesday, an American legislature took the most affirmative step so far to limit cellphone location tracking by law enforcement. The California Location Privacy Act, passed with bipartisan support by the state’s Assembly, could protect the location data created by citizens’ cell phones,

Utility, not whimsey is at the heart of Google’s U.S. Election Day Doodle, which leads readers to local polling places. The Doodle, which shows the Google name spelled out in paper ballots (odd for a tech company as some have pointed out), click through to a prompt to ‘enter the address where

Researchers at the University of Illinois are developing what they call ‘bio-bots,’ or machines that combine synthetic 3D-printed frameworks with biological muscle tissue. When the muscle fibers are jolted with electricity, they contract. Those muscles are attached to 3D-printed ‘bones,’ which

The United States has the second highest degree of Internet freedom in the world, according to a new study from Freedom House. What country’s ahead of America? Estonia, a country of 1.29 million in northeast Europe. Estonia Why does Estonia top the list? According to Freedom House, it ‘ranks

Journalist Piers Morgan attends the 2013 CNN Heroes at the American Museum of Natural History on Nov. 19, 2013 in New York City.Image: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Yesterday, transgender woman and writer Janet Mock was excited for her interview with Piers Morgan Live on CNN.

Apple is considering making changes at Beats Music, not shutting down the service.Image: Lester Cohen/WireImage Apple is considering making a bunch of changes at Beats Music, but shutting down the subscription streaming service isn’t one of them. ‘It’s not true,’ Tom Neumayr, a spokesman for

Have you been receiving anti-Obama text messages from a random address? You’re not alone – hundreds of people have said they’ve seen them on their phones. Speaking anecdotally, most of the people this writer has noticed reporting the anti-Obama texts are journalists and other politically-active